[Fedora-packaging] [DRAFT] Post Release Naming/Tags

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Fri Mar 30 21:31:02 UTC 2007


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 23:13 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>> I have added a draft for handling Post Release packages.
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/PostRelease
>>>
>>> Comments are always welcomed.
>>>
>>> ~spot
>> I would appreciate it if you would argue the case
>> in which upstream uses the tarball like
>>
>> <name>-<version>-<release>.tar.gz.
>>
>> One case is ImageMagick, and the other case is:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230560
> IMO, in such cases the upstream "version-release" should be treated as
> rpm's "version"

'-' is not a valid character in an rpm version.




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